Articulation

• Pizzicato - Plucking strings
• Arco - bowing strings
• Staccato - Short, detached notes
• Legato - Notes smoothly joined together
• Slur - A curved line connecting notes of different pitches to indicate they should be played smoothly
• Glissando - A slide from one note to another
• Accent - Emphasised note
• Tremelo - A note repeated very quickly over and over again